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Lovers Reunited 75 Years on from WW2

Journalists in France helped bring a US veteran back together with his wartime sweetheart.

In 1944, KT Robbins was stationed with his regiment in Briey, eastern France, where he fell in love with an 18-year-old French girl, Jeannine Pierson n茅e Ganaye.

Two months later, he had to leave the village in a hurry for the eastern front, leaving them both wondering whether they would ever meet again.

He kept a picture of her, and showed it to French journalists when he went to France for the commemorative ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

To his surprise, journalists managed to track her down.

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